Uavionics echo / sky power up time

[donwmack]

I connected the echo/sky units yesterday. I waited 3minutes for the WiFi to appear. It never did. How long does the unit take to show up? I did verify power and ground to both connectors. I?m using the navworx cable they sent.

[RONSIM]

Will be "Ping" something or other on your phone --

[donwmack]

I was waiting for something starting with ping... on both my phone and iPad and it never showed up. I was asking if anyone knows about how long for it to show up.
Thanks

[RicoB]

Can you see if the little lights are powered up? My comes up right away!

[painless]

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but did you go to settings in your iPhone and/or iPad and select to connect to the “ping” network in WiFi settings?


Make sure the Echo WiFi software is up to date as well.

https://www.uavionix.com/support/echouat/

[DennisRhodes]

Should be available to connect up to wifi within 1 min if you have powered up the echo and can see the appropriate indicator led s on the Echo. As stated above, the wifi will be named PING XXXX .

[donwmack]

Didn?t see any lights either. Thanks. That helps.

[DennisRhodes]

Put one in a RV 7 couple weeks ago that actually had a bad connector and or wire crimp in the black plug and was not powering up unit. May want to check that if you have NO LED indicator lite.

[donwmack]

Thanks. I didn't see lights on either unit. I did check the wiring to ensure I had power on pin 2 and pin 1 was grounded on both units.

[DennisRhodes]

Actually uAvionics swapped the Echo out for me no questions ask and sent me a new one. Plugged it into the OLD ( original plug ) and had same problem . Pulled out the old black plug and installed the new one ( with the replacement unit) and all worked well . I would bet the original echo would work had we just replaced the plug. I didn t do autopsy on the OLD plug but that confirmed for me something not connected internally.